The Linux-PAM Application Developers' Guide

Andrew G. Morgan, morgan@linux.kernel.org

DRAFT v0.63 1998/1/18

This manual documents what an application developer needs to know
about the Linux-PAM library. It describes how an application
might use the Linux-PAM library to authenticate users. In
addition it contains a description of the funtions to be found in
libpam_misc library, that can be used in general applications.
Finally, it contains some comments on PAM related security issues for
the application developer.